# Core getch Hack

Justin C Harris (jch1134@jackson.freenet.org)
Thu, 9 May 1996 16:37:28 PDT

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    On Thu, 9 May 1996 slayer@kaiwan.com wrote:

    > At 03:51 PM 5/9/96 PDT, Mike Carns wrote:
    > >Would it be possible to create a new builitin verb that called getch to
    > >get characters from the user, thus not echoing things like passwords?
    > >I've been looking at the code and their doesn't seem to be a definite
    > >place where it calls a form of scanf to get input, so I can't find the
    > >place to get the basic routine for such a verb.
    > >
    > >Later,
    > >Mcarns

    > >
    > try set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 1) I don't know if that'll

    actually it's ;set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 0) to stop the
    echoing of characters, then ;set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 1)
    to turn echoing back on.

    > work, because echoing characters is mostly a client thing, not a in-moo
    > thing, however telnet clients should respond to these kinds of things from
    > the server, if a person is telnetting directly in it'll work, but not
    > necessarily with some clients.
    >
    >
    				Justin Harris